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Watch: 250 Drones Light Up Sky At India Gate To Celebrate Netaji’s Legacy

The drones took to air in phases and made eight different formations.New Delhi: A swarm of drones lit up the night sky over India Gate complex on Friday showcasing the life and legacy of freedom fighter Subhas Chandra Bose and celebrating the newly-unveiled grand statue of Netaji, a senior official said.The drones took to air in phases and made eight different formations."A total of 250 drones will be used, and the last formation will be of the new grand statue unveiled by the Prime Minister on Thursday. The drone show will depict the life and legacy of Netaji," the senior official of Culture Ministry told PTI shortly before the show began.#WATCH | Ministry of Culture organises a drone show at the India Gate, in Delhi. pic.twitter.com/Cb3EeywRYI— ANI (@ANI) September 9, 2022The show sta...
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Toll Plaza Gates Were Widened To Transport Stone For Netaji Bose Statue

A team of sculptors spent 26,000 man hours of "intense artistic endeavour" to carve Netaji's statue.New Delhi: Some of the toll plaza gates on highways had to be "temporarily dismantled" to allow passage to a 100-ft-long truck carrying the monolithic block of granite for the statue of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose from Telangana to Delhi.Rajat Mehta, director of Delhi-based Granite Studio India, which supplied the telephone black stone sourced from a quarry in Khammam in Telangana, said a "makeshift road" had to be built to move it from the quarry to a highway for transportation."It was a mammoth block of stone, weighing 280 metric tonnes (MT) and 32-ft-long. It was 11-ft-high and 8.5-ft-wide from which the image of Netaji was carved out. But bringing it to Delhi entailed a whole host of c...
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“As If I’m Their Servant”: Mamata Banerjee To Skip Netaji Statue Event

Mamata Banerjee said she received a letter yesterday from a bureaucrat informing her about today's event.Kolkata: Mamata Banerjee today said she would not attend the inauguration of a Netaji statue in Delhi today as the invite was "not proper". The West Bengal Chief Minister said she received a letter yesterday from a bureaucrat informing her about today's event."I got a letter yesterday from a undersecretary yesterday saying the PM will inaugurate the Netaji statue at 7 pm and you must be there at 6 pm. As if I am their servant. How can an undersecretary write to a Chief Minister? Why has the culture minister become so big," Mamata Banerjee said at a party gathering in Kolkata."That's why I garlanded the Netaji statue here in the afternoon today to offer my respects," she said.Prime Mi...
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Sculptors Spent 26,000 Hours To Carve Netaji Bose’s Grand Statue: Centre

A special 10-minute drone show on Netaji's life would be projected at India Gate on Thursday.New Delhi: A team of sculptors spent 26,000 man-hours of "intense artistic endeavour" to carve a grand statue of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, to be unveiled at the India Gate, from a monolithic block of granite weighing 280 MT, the Culture Ministry said on Wednesday.A 100-ft-long truck with 140 wheels was specially designed for this giant granite stone to travel 1,665 km from Khammam in Telangana to New Delhi, it said.Prime Minister Narendra Modi will Thursday inaugurate the newly-christened Kartavya Path - a stretch from Rashtrapati Bhavan to India Gate- and will also unveil the 28-ft statue of Bose at India Gate.Installation work was underway on Wednesday on the eve of its unveiling. It will be...
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